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Prayers from the Darkness
The Difficult Psalms
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2005
The "difficult psalms" which amount to more than a third of the Psalter, shock us with their cries of pain, anger, and alienation. They call on God for help in moving from suffering and grief to trust and mercy. Lyn Fraser, following the lead of Old Testament theologian Walter Brueggemann,...
by Barbara Cawthorne Crafton
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2018
• Popular author with devoted following • Non-threatening way to start conversations about Jesus The inimitable Barbara Crafton describes the birth of this book: “We have to learn about Jesus from somebody. Somebody has to tell us. Jesus has been told to people by other people for better than...
How Can Anyone Read the Bible?
A Little Book of Guidance
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
• Offers basic information to make the Bible less formidable to beginning readers • Author is a preeminent Biblical scholar and prominent retired Episcopalian seminary professor In How Can Anyone Read the Bible? preeminent biblical scholar Bill Countryman provides a basic introduction for those...
Beyond Business as Usual
Vestry Leadership Development
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
This book is full of resources for forming the vestry as a learning community. It deals with the “soft” side of leadership that enables the pastor and vestry to journey together along the leadership path. Each chapter can be read and reviewed during a series of vestry meetings, or as part of a vestry...
Humble and Strong
Mutually Accountable Leadership in the Church
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
To be effective, leadership must be humble and strong, the leadership we often see in churches and not-for-profits, as well as in corporations, can be neither. The purpose of this book is to analyze these assertions, then to discuss how those who are preparing to be leaders and those who wish to be...
Hanging by a Thread
The Questions of the Cross
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
• Incisive theology, yet accessible • Small book with large possibilities for group study and personal reflection • Makes a marvelous Lenten resource This brilliant series of theological reflections from internationally known scholar and Anglican cleric Samuel Wells reflects on the challenges...
by Nicola Slee
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
“Of all the women in the Bible,” writes Nicola Slee, “Mary has been for me the most ambivalent, the most alien and yet, at some level, the most alluring. I’ve taken a long time to come to her—or for her to come to me. I grew up in a religious tradition—low church Methodism—in which Mary...
On Sexuality and Scripture
Essays, Bible Studies, and Personal Reflections by the Chicago Consultation, the Ujamaa Centre, and Their Friends
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
• Of interest to biblical scholars, students, and those following the international debate on same-sex issues • Internationally-known authors • Demonstrates serious students of Scripture can find good news for LGBTQ people and churches that affirm them in the Bible and the life and teachings...
As My Own Soul
The Blessing of Same-Gender Marriage
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
With the removal of sexual orientation as a bar to ordination in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), pending approval of a majority of presbyteries, and the Episcopal Church’s 2009 General Convention calling for the development of theological and liturgical resources for same-sex blessings, sexual...
The Complete Guide to Godly Play
Volume 3, Revised and Expanded
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
• Incorporates the latest in Godly Play® theory and practice • Revised lessons throughout, plus one brand-new lesson The Godly Play® approach helps children explore their faith through story, to gain religious language, and to enhance their spiritual experience through wonder and play. Based...
Teach Us to Number Our Days
A Liturgical Advent Calendar
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1999
This practical handbook for homes and church communities helps to enrich the Christian celebration of Advent through the creation and use of an Advent calendar. Written for people of all skill levels, Baumgarten provides instructions for a calendar made of paper or junk mail, a no-sew felt version,...
Pioneers of Modern Spirituality
The Neglected Anglican Innovators of a "Spiritual but Not Religious" Age
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2018
• Recovery of forgotten figures in Anglican spirituality with import for today • Written by an eminent scholar of the Anglican Communion Distinguished Anglican theologian Jane Shaw presents four of the early 20thcentury Anglican innovators in spirituality and assesses how they might help us develop...
Priesthood in a New Millennium
Toward an Understanding of Anglican Presbyterate in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
David Cox's important new book examines priestly identity as it has evolved within Anglicanism over the last 150 years. Central to this evolution, is the manner in which - and the extent to which - the once nearly synonymous terms "English" and "Anglican"
Holy Hospitality
Worship and the Baptismal Covenant
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2005
What does it really mean to "proclaim the good news of God in Christ" and to "continue in the apostles' teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of the bread, and in the prayers?" These promises from the baptismal rite of the Book of Common Prayer have become very familiar to most...